Upper Assam

GUWAHATI: The Centre today claimed that the Maoist extremists were focusing to set up bases in upper Assam, close to international border and this could create a "serious strategic security complication" to northeastern states. Addressing a two-day seminar organised by the CDPS here, National Security Advisory Board member P C Haldar said that foreign forces inimical to India's interest may use the Maoists as pawn to fulfil their agenda. "In the northeast, Maoists'...

GUWAHATI: Tension has gripped Upper Assam following the killing of two Hindi speaking people by the proscribed militant outfit, anti talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom . ULFA (Independent), which is also known as anti-talk faction under the elusive commander in chief, Paresh Baruah, gunned down petty tea grower Nanda Lal Shah and his daughter in Pengiri area in Tinsukia district on Tuesday. A senior police official confirmed that Shah was served...

GUWAHATI: Upper Assam towns of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia will soon get CNG fuel for automobile. This proposal is awaiting clearance of Public Investment Board (PIB). Assam Gas Company Limited ( AGCL ) is planning to launch the CNG project in Upper Assam area. Assam is yet to have CNG connection. Managing Director, Bhupen Borpatragohain told ET, " Dibrugarh town has lot of commercial vehicle and operational cost will be very less...

NEW DELHI: 15 Biharis were shot dead at Bordubi in Upper Assam on Saturday morning. Tinsukia Superintend of police has been suspended following the massacre. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said it was difficult to control the violence without getting additional Central forces.

GUWAHATI: Congress has started targeting BJP's support base of migrant hindi speaking population. These people settled in Assam from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have supported the saffron party in Assam for almost a decade now. Congress is getting Hindi speaking community leaders to join the party. On Sunday around 523 persons belonging to Bhojpuri and Bengali community joined congress. Hindi speaking people gradually moved away from congress in 1990's and supported BJP in its...

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that the state has not received the Rs 400 crore of flood assistance recommended by the Centre. "The Central team that visited Assam to assess the damage caused by floods last year has recommended Rs 400 crore. But we have not got any money yet," Gogoi told reporters here. He said the inordinate delay would affect restoration and other related works as the monsoon...

A major fire broke out on Wednesday morning in IOC's Digboi refinery in Upper Assam. According to police sources, two people died in the fire. While the fire broke out within the refinery complex, a separate fire raged that the nearby Oil India Ltd township.

GUWAHATI: It may be unheard of for an energy company, but state-run Oil India plans to tie up with the Assam government to start a cooperative dairy business along the lines of Gujarat's successful 'Amul' model. The project named 'Kamdhenu' envisages setting up a milk production facility in Upper Assam to establish the dairy business in 3 to 5 years, Oil India Ltd (OIL) said here today. "Assam is a milk-deficient state. Availability of good milk is a big...

GUWAHATI: Congress has started targeting BJP's support base of migrant hindi speaking population. These people settled in Assam from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have supported the saffron party in Assam for almost a decade now. Congress is getting Hindi speaking community leaders to join the party. On Sunday around 523 persons belonging to Bhojpuri and Bengali community joined congress. Hindi speaking people gradually moved away from congress in 1990's and supported BJP in...

GUWAHATI: There is tension in Assam after a senior functionary of India Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has gone missing from Digboi in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district on Sunday. Kaushik Borah , executive director (designate) of IOCL (Assam oil division) has gone missing while his car was found in the Pengeri reserve forest. His family members have lodged an FIR. Tinsukia Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Singh told ET, "The executive...

GUWAHATI: For the first time, Assam government will organise trade and industrial exposition from February 19 to 25 February next year in Jorhat in Upper Assam. Assam industry minister, Pradyut Bordoloi said that fair will provide a platform for business opportunities and enterprise building with the National and International markets. "The fair will provide a Buyer-Seller platform offering business opportunities and enterprise building and also...

GUWAHATI: BJP to continue its Lok Sabha polls formula of going solo in 2016 assembly polls in Assam. Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan who is also the minister in charge of BJP in Assam said that party will go alone in assembly polls 2016. He said that the party has been able to mainstream itself in Assam. "People here want change and are looking forward to BJP. We will go alone. " Pradhan has toured the...

GUWAHATI: The Centre will bring out a 'vision document' for the hydrocarbon sector in Assam with an aim to attract investment in various divisions such as exploration, refining and distribution, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today. "We have formed a high-power committee, which will prepare a vision document in the next three months for the hydrocarbon sector of Assam," Pradhan told reporters here. The document would focus on a...

GUWAHATI: Four months after the Assam government submitted a memorandum to the Centre, two inter-ministerial teams have visited the state this month to asses the damages caused by floods last year. Addressing a press conference here, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said "We had submitted the memorandum in October last year. The inter-ministerial team visited the flood-hit areas only this month. Where will they get flood now? The Centre is not...

NEW DELHI: Barring two low-intensity blasts in Assam, Republic Day celebrations today passed off peacefully across the country even as the states showcased the cultural diversity and the might of security forces. Amid multi-tier security, Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra took the salute at the Maulana Azad stadium in Jammu with no untoward incident being reported from any part of the state. For the first time in a decade, mobile phone and Internet services were not...

GUWAHATI: Two low-intensity bombs exploded at the oil town of Digboi in upper Assam's Tinsukia district today as the state celebrated the 66th Republic Day . "No damage or casualty has been reported so far from the very low intensity blasts," Senior Superintendent of Police A P Tiwari said. One of the explosions took place under dumped garbage near a railway track and another in a drain under the garbage there, he said. "It seems from the...

GUWAHATI: Two low-intensity bombs exploded at the oil town of Digboi in upper Assam's Tinsukia district today as the state celebrated the 66th Republic Day . "No damage or casualty has been reported so far from the very low intensity blasts," Senior Superintendent of Police A P Tiwari said. One of the explosions took place under dumped garbage near a railway track and another in a drain under the garbage there, he said. "It seems from the impact...

GUWAHATI: Ulfa has asked the Hindi-speaking people to leave Assam. Ulfa, in its mouthpiece 'Freedom' has stated: "We have appealed to the Hindi-speaking people to leave because of the conflict in Assam, which is against colonial India. However, colonial administrators and illegal occupation forces instigate the Hindi-speaking population to ignore our appeal. " It added: "We have also appealed to all concerned, whether Hindi-speaking or not, not to cooperate with the...

GUWAHATI: Two anti-talk ULFA militants are believed to be moving about in Guwahati with explosives ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Assam on November 29 and 30, a development that has sent the security establishment into a tizzy. According to the police, these militants are planning to plant explosives in a bus. In a precautionary measure, police in Upper Assam has asked Hindi-speaking traders to stay indoors and not venture out in...

GUWAHATI: BJP is Assam has swung in poll mood. BJP is trying to cash in the growing confrontation of NDA led centre with congress ruled Assam, the Saffron party has set a target of whooping 25 lakh membership in Assam by March next year. BJP has tasked Mahendra Singh, one of the members of party president Amit Shah's core team to recharge the fractional riddled BJP ahead of the 2016 assembly polls. Singh who is the in charge of Assam in his...